Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 2 | And this is why as I ca n't remember if we mentioned it now , maybe did , maybe or someone else did , that the ego carries out repression very often at the demand of the superego , so the superego has its standards , its barriers , its sense of conscience , its threat of guilt , and the ego , to satisfy those demands , to avoid guilt , carries out repression at its , at its command , or at its insistence . |
| 3 | He considered going to the House , or Whitehall , looking for Morton or someone else he-knew . |
| 4 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 5 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 6 | And I 've , I was , I do n't know if it was Michael or somebody else told me that they would n't insure it . |
| 7 | A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it . |
| 8 | Nor did he want to do anything prematurely which put a question mark against the potential of the United Nations or which unnecessarily provoked the USSR . |
| 9 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 10 | So you actually became dependant on the tranquillizers did you or or or you simply had |
| 11 | In America that either means you made it , or you just got off the boat . |
| 12 | T.V. is relatively difficult to get onto , in terms of you taking the initiatives , you contact the B B C or I T V and say , ‘ I have a thing which you ought to have , ’ and unless it 's really outstanding , the chances are relatively small of getting on unless you are very lucky or you know somebody or you just hit the right spot at the right time . |
| 13 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 14 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 15 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 16 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 17 | He or she also settled expenses incurred since the deceased 's death , such as the cost of the funeral . |
| 18 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 19 | The burden of proof lies on the defendant , who may be convicted even though he or she honestly believed , on reasonable grounds , that what was published was true and a matter of public interest . |
| 20 | Only one visitor failed to say where he or she normally lived . |
| 21 | Mr Wakerley suggested Miss Dart might have tried to escape , or she may have screamed , or she possibly saw Sams undisguised and had to be killed . |
| 22 | To perform the court 's order could require the doctor to act in a manner which he or she genuinely believed not to be in the patient 's best interests ; to fail to treat the child as ordered would amount to a contempt of court . |
| 23 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 24 | The individual will work less and give more hours to leisure , but this is not what he or she originally wished to do , and his or her satisfaction or welfare is thus reduced . |
| 25 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 26 | There were lots of hopefuls who would have been journalists if they had pursued a career , or who now wanted to learn . |
| 27 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 28 | No one generation has the right to pollute the planet or to consume all its natural resources in a manner that leaves for posterity only a polluted planet or one seriously denuded of its resources . |
| 29 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 30 | Britain acquired large parts of North America ( until the independence of the USA in 1776 ) , the West Indies , the West African coast , and the Indian sub-continent and this was partly a cause , partly a reinforcement of industrial growth : ‘ We were , or we increasingly became , the agency of economic interchange between the advanced and the backward , the industrial and the primary-producing , the metropolitan and the colonial or quasi-colonial regions of the world ’ ( Hobsbawm , 1969 , 14 ) . |